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Climate Justice Initiative at the United Nations

Climate Justice Initiative at the United Nations

Climate Justice Initiative at the United Nations

Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Climate Justice

The goal of the Climate Justice Initiative at the Unitarian Universalist (UU) United Nations Office is to work under Commit2Respond to provide global climate change education and advocacy. We support the UU climate justice movement by collaborating with other climate change voices at the United Nations in order to support climate change mitigation and adaptation that is viable for us and future generations.

UU-UNO Climate Initiatives at the UN

The Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO), part of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and working in collaboration with the Canadian Unitarian Council, promotes human rights, peace, and justice throughout the world. The UU-UNO supports the work of the United Nations Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and feels its long-term vision is very much in tune with our moral, ethical, and survival imperative to ensure ecosystem health, livelihood, peace, and justice.

There can be no long-term solution to human rights concerns without effectively dealing with environmental justice issues; this includes climate change. Climate change makes a tangible impact on human survival on Earth. It is interconnected with many social justice and environmental issues including the themes focused on at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, where representatives developed a set Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Today’s world needs to address issues including: employment and decent work for all, social protection, youth, education and culture, health and population dynamics. Local efforts will not be enough to solve them. Global action is needed, which can only be coordinated by the United Nations.

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Program Update

September 2017

Collaborating with the UU climate justice Initiative, the United Nations, and other NGOs, we support the work of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that address climate change issues. Our projects on Climate Change include organizing UU climate justice roundtable meeting monthly and working with activists for climate justice at Unitarian Universalist Association. In addition, we work with Green Sanctuary to create a database for the ongoing environmental projects of UU congregations. In the following months, our office will host Panel discussions on climate change within the United Nations. Issues pertaining to climate challenges and global migration crisis will be prevalent in the upcoming Intergenerational Spring Seminar.